The Republican War on Science, but Flaccid
The word on the street is that the Pope is about to go from casual affection to an outright embrace of intelligent design. Shortly thereafter, if ID follows the stem cell pattern these days, a group of defunded paleontologists will form a company and write an article in Nature in which they defend really intelligent evolution, hoping to please the pope.
The Republican War on Science by Chris Mooney is the answer to these problems, of course, and Art Caplan reminded me that a new, paperback version with some new material is just out. As if the stem cell boneheads weren't going to sell enough of Chris' books.
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I'm sorry? When did the German Pope register as a Republican? I must have missed that.
And if you really want a "war on science," how about the media reporting that Advanced Cell Technology obtained ES cells by taking one blastomere from an embryo, and permitting the embryo to survice, when that isn't at all what happened? But reporting off press releases is a media mainstay these days. Had the media read the actual study, they would have had to report a different story, which would not have been perceived to hurt the Bush policy, making it not worth publishing.
ACT issued a misleading press release and NATURE had to correct its own press release. The media swallowed it whole and are still issuing faulty stories and editorials on the experiment. Are they all Republicans, too?
- by Wesley J. Smith on Aug 29, 2006 at 4:11 AM | link
So a theology conference constitutes a War on Science. Then how about the Animal-Rights War on Science?
- by Electrolux on Aug 29, 2006 at 5:32 PM | link
Isn't stock fraud an ethical lapse?
- by Tanhauser on Sep 2, 2006 at 8:32 PM | link
By way of following up on this, here's a rather different spin on the same seminar, now that it's over.
The author of the Reuters article offers this executive summary: "Catholic theologians see no contradiction between their belief in divine creation and the scientific theory of evolution."
Gripping stuff, eh? :-)
- by Electrolux on Sep 8, 2006 at 1:19 AM | link